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BY 

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W.  S.  AUCHINCLOSS,  C.E. 


AUTHOR  OF  THE  “BOOK  OF  DANIEL  UNLOCKED,”  “BIBLE  CHRONOLOGY,” 
“CHRISTIAN  era”  “SAINT  PETER  THE  APOSTLE  OF  ASIA,” 

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DORN  AN,  PRINTER, 


PHILADELPHIA 


PREFACE. 


One  is  apt  to  think  of  Israel  as  spending  40  years  on  the 
road  to  Canaan  and  lose  sight  of  the  fact,  that  39  of  those  years 
were  spent  in  camp,  while  only  one  year  was  consumed  in 
covering  their  entire  journey  of  1100  miles  between  Rameses 
and  the  river  Jordan.  The  Bible  record  is  complete  as  to 
the  route  followed  but  the  history  of  their  journey  is  scattered 
through  half  a  dozen  different  books,  the  record  changing  back 
and  forth  from  one  place  to  another  nearly  100  times.  We 
have  assembled  this  data  and  illustrated  the  route  by  an 
itinerary  map.  In  order  to  bring  out  the  names  of  places 
with  greater  clearness  we  have  omitted  the  mountain  ranges 
and  gorges,  but  in  plotting  the  line  of  march  both  their  location 
and  the  gradients  overcome  have  been  carefully  taken  into  the 
account,  hence  the  course  shown  is  topographically  correct. 

Israel’s  journey  may  be  divided  into  three  sections,  viz: — 
Rameses  to  Sinai,  thence  to  Kadesh,  and  finally  to  the  crossing 
of  the  Jordan.  They  tarried  11  months  at  Sinai  and  38  years 
at  Kadesh. 

We  find  that  in  Bible  geography  as  in  Bible  chronology,  a 
golden  thread  of  logical  sequence  binds  all  together  and 
proclaims  a  Divine  origin. 

W.  S.  A. 


(3) 


Digitized  by  the  Internet  Archive 
in  2019  with  funding  from 
Princeton  Theological  Seminary  Library 


https://archive.org/details/tocanaaninoneyeaOOauch 


ON  THE  EOAD  TO  CANAAN. 


The  children  of  Israel  left  Rameses  on  the  19th  of  April 
b.c.  1477  under  the  leadership  of  Moses  and  after  a  journey 
of  six  weeks  encamped  at  Mt.  Sinai  where  they  remained  11 
months  and  received  from  God  a  civil  code  and  a  complete 
form  of  religious  worship.  Their  next  objective  point  was  the 
Wilderness  around  Kadesh  which  at  that  time  was  counted  a 
journey  of  11  days.  However  they  spent  2  months  on  the  road 
being  detained  at  Kibroth-hattaavah  also  at  Hazeroth.  Before 
reaching  the  neighborhood  of  Kadesh  they  crossed  the  line 
which  later  on  became  the  southern  boundary  line  of  Canaan 
and  therefore  were  truly  within  the  Land  of  Promise  by  July 
b.c.  1476.  Having  advanced  almost  to  Hormah  they  received 
a  command  to  take  immediate  possession  of  the  entire  country 
and  if  they  had  shown  the  same  faith  they  previously  displayed 
at  the  Red  Sea,  they  would  then  have  marched  forward  and 
accomplished  a  series  of  most  dazzling  victories.  But  their 
faith  failed.  Worse  still,  rank  rebellion  lifted  its  head,  the 
people  rejected  God  and  appointed  a  Captain  of  their  own 
choosing,  saying: — “Were  it  not  better  for  us  to  return  into 
Egypt?” — Such  treason  could  not  go  unpunished.  God  told 
them: — “Tomorrow  turn  you,  and  get  you  into  the  Wilderness 
by  the  Way  of  the  Red  Sea.”  The  next  morning  a  portion  of 
the  host  becoming  presumptuous,  advanced  beyond  Hormah, 
and  in  direct  opposition  to  the  warning  of  Moses  and  the  com¬ 
mand  of  God,  climbed  to  the  hill  top  where  they  were  defeated 
by  the  Amalekites  and  were  chased  even  to  Hormah  itself. 
Meantime  the  rest  of  the  host  under  Moses  made  a  detour  into 
the  valley  or  gorge  of  the  Arabah,  following  the  Hebron  and 
Petra  road,  called  in  those  days  “the  Way  of  the  Red  Sea,” 
and  so  worked  their  way  back  to  Kadesh,  which  place  they 
reached  in  the  month  of  March  b.c.  1475.  The  penalty  for 

(5) 


6 


ON  THE  ROAD  TO  CANAAN 


rebellion  was  God’s  refusal  to  use  any  of  those  soldiers,  except 
Joshua  and  Caleb,  in  his  great  work  of  conquering  the  land  of 
Canaan. — In  the  next  38  years  600,000  men  gradually  passed 
away  and  another  600,000  came  on  the  field.  These  years  were 
spent  near  the  city  of  Kadesh  in  the  Wilderness  of  Zin,  over 
which  the  people  may  be  said  to  have  roamed  rather  than 
wandered.  To  wander,  implies  moving  without  any  settled 
purpose,  but  to  roam  conveys  the  idea  of  returning  to  a  given 
starting  point.  Two  causes  combined  to  keep  them  in  the 
neighborhood  of  Kadesh,  viz:  the  pillar  of  cloud  by  day  and 
of  fire  by  night,  also  the  daily  downpour  of  manna.  Wonderful 
as  the  miracles  wrought  in  the  presence  of  Pharaoh  appear 
in  our  eyes,  they  do  not  approach  the  miracle  of  the  manna, 
that  daily  food  on  which  some  3,000,000  of  people  subsisted. 
In  studying  the  journeyings  of  Israel  it  is  important  to  keep 
in  mind  the  centralizing  effect  of  food  given  in  one  locality. 
The  people  might  roam  for  miles  around  a  given  point  but  they 
always  had  the  fixed  purpose  of  returning  within  a  short  time 
to  satisfy  the  demands  of  hunger.  We  read  of  Israel  going 
to  Kadesh,  of  their  abiding  in  Kadesh  and  of  their  final  departure 
from  Kadesh,  but  no  journeyings  are  mentioned  while  they 
were  serving  their  38  years’  sentence. 

The  journey  of  the  Israelites  is  associated  with  a  chapter  in 

tribal  history,  that  throws  light  on  their  stay  at  Kadesh.  It 

is  a  curious  fact  that  they  were  able  to  encamp  near  that  city 

for  so  long  a  time  and  yet  they  met  with  no  opposition.  Now 

the  31  principal  cities  of  Canaan  each  had  its  own  king,  who 

at  a  later  day  was  conquered  by  Joshua.  Among  these  was  the 

king  of  Kadesh-in-Galilee  but  nothing  is  said  about  a  king  of 

Kadesh-barnea,  nor  was  the  allegiance  of  its  inhabitants  claimed 

either  by  the  Edomites,  the  Canaanites,  or  by  the  Amalekites. 

That  the  Kenites  dwelt  in  Kadesh  we  think  is  shown  bv  the 

«/ 

fact,  that  when  Israel  left  Kadesh,  the  Kenites  went  with  them  to 
Jericho  (probably  fearful  of  consequences  had  they  remained)  and 
afterward  they  followed  Judah  and  Simeon  when  the  latter  tribes 


ON  THE  ROAD  TO  CANAAN 


7 


went  to  conquer  the  country  allotted  to  them.  This  territory 
included  Kadesh-barnea  and  near  that  city  the  Kenites  again 
settled.  The  Kenites  were  beloved  by  Israel  for  their  hospitality 
and  other  sterling  qualities,  also  because  they  counted  among 
their  number  Jethro,  Hobab,  and  Zipporah;  the  father-in-law, 
the  brother-in-law  and  the  wife  of  Moses.  That  the  attachment 
was  lasting  is  shown  by  the  fact  that  400  years  later,  King  Saul 
told  the  Kenites: — “Go,  depart,  get  you  down  from  among  the 
Amalekites  lest  I  destroy  you  with  them :  for  ye  showed  kind¬ 
ness  to  all  the  children  of  Israel  when  they  came  up  out  of 
Egypt.”  Again  in  David’s  time  we  read  of  “the  cities  of  the 
Kenites”  and  the  context  shows  that  they  were  still  held  in  affec¬ 
tionate  regard  throughout  the  land  of  Israel.  Even  then,  their 
influence  did  not  cease,  because  after  another  500  years  the  ster¬ 
ling  qualities  of  Rechab  the  Kenite  were  perpetuated  in  the 
orderly  lives  of  the  Rechabites  which  brought  forth  the  promise, 
“thus  saith  the  Lord  of  hosts,  the  God  of  Israel:  Jonadab 
the  son  of  Rechab  shall  not  want  a  man  to  stand  before  me 
forever.” 

Surely  in  view  of  such  a  record,  also  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
in  God’s  original  promise  made  to  Abraham  the  first  lands 
mentioned  were  those  of  the  Kenites,  it  is  not  hard  to  decide 
that  Kadesh-barnea  belonged  to  the  Kenites,  that  Jethro  was 
their  priest-ruler  and  that  his  son  Hobab  found  “Mine  own 
land  and  my  kindred”  in  the  city  of  Kadesh.  Israel  therefore 
was  among  friends  at  Kadesh  and  of  course  at  peace. 

For  a  clear  understanding  of  the  Scripture  narrative  we  must 
remember  that  it  contains  many  duplicate  names,  as  for  in¬ 
stance  : — 


Paran . Zin 

Sinai . Horeb 

Taberah . Kibroth-hattaavah 

Etham . Shur 

Kadesh . Kadesh-barnea 

Hormah . Zephath 


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ON  THE  ROAD  TO  CANAAN 


Debir . Kirjath-sepher 

Hebron . Kirjath-arba 

Mt.  Hermon . Shenir  and  Sirion 

This  duplication  of  words  generally  has  a  geographical  origin. 

For  example,  those  who  live  south  of  a  Wilderness  call  it  by 
the  name  of  a  town  in  their  own  neighborhood,  witness : — Paran, 
while  others  living  north  of  identically  the  same  Wilderness 
call  it  after  their  most  important  town,  viz: — Zin.  So  too  with 
mountains,  we  encounter  the  same  peculiarity,  for  instance  some 
called  Mt.  Hermon  by  the  name  of  Mt.  Shenir  while  others 
spoke  of  it  as  Mt.  Sirion.  But  this  should  not  cause  surprise 
for  in  our  own  country  the  people  of  Tacoma  speak  of  their 
majestic  peak  as  Mt.  Tacoma,  while  the  residents  of  Seattle 
insist  on  calling  the  same  mountain  Mt.  Ranier. 

Having  now  followed  Israel  to  Kadesh,  and  noted  the  effect 
of  time  on  their  army  we  come  to  the  final  stage  wherein  they 
journeyed  from  Kadesh  to  the  river  Jordan.  Those  who  reached 
Kadesh  at  19  years  of  age  were  now  56  years  old.  No  men 
exceeded  this  age,  excepting  Joshua  and  Caleb  who  were  respec¬ 
tively  69  and  78  years  old.  With  such  a  force  the  nation  was 
in  splendid  fighting  trim.  No  special  sympathy  need  be  ex¬ 
pended  on  account  of  their  long  stay  in  Kadesh,  for  when  we 
contrast,  the  perfect  freedom  of  the  people  to  engage  in  the 
ordinary  pursuits  of  every  day  life  and  how  they  received  their 
daily  bread  from  God,  with  their  former  condition  wherein  the 
Egyptians  “made  their  lives  bitter  with  hard  bondage  in  mortar 
and  in  bricks  and  in  all  manner  of  service  in  the  field”  under  the 
rays  of  a  torrid  sun,  they  certainly  had  great  cause  for  thank¬ 
fulness.  Besides,  their  long  stay  in  the  desert  probably  exerted 
that  fascinating  influence  over  their  minds,  which  is  so  common 
among  those  who  have  lived  a  long  time  in  the  arid  regions  of 
California  and  Arizona.  Curiously  enough,  when  such  persons 
have  occasion  to  visit  what  we  would  call  more  favored  parts 
of  the  country,  they  are  unhappy  amid  their  new  surround¬ 
ings  and  long  to  get  back  to  their  former  haunts. 


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9 


Before  leaving  Kadesh,  Moses  sent  to  the  king  of  Edom  and 
asked  permission  to  follow  the  highway  across  his  kingdom, 
thus  hoping  to  reach  the  Damascus  road  by  a  short  cut-off 
and  save  the  people  a  weary  journey  around  the  mountain  range 
called  Seir.  The  king  however,  not  only  refused  to  grant  the 
request  but  guarded  his  border  with  an  armed  force.  Then, 
“the  whole  congregation  journeyed  from  Kadesh  and  came 
to  Mt.  Hor.”  The  real  Mt.  Hor,  now  called  Mt.  Madurah. 
is  located  southwest  of  the  Dead  Sea  at  the  west  end  of  the 
Fikreh  Valley  not  far  from  Hormah.  It  is  a  lone  peak,  like 
Mt.  Tabor  rising  about  1000  feet  above  the  adjoining  plain, 
and  located  wholly  within  the  land  of  Canaan .  The  traditional 
site  of  the  tomb  of  Aaron  on  Mt.  Hor  near  Petra  in  the  land  of 
Edom  is  no  more  reliable  than  the  traditional  site  of  Adam’s 
tomb  in  the  city  of  Jerusalem.  One  site  is  about  as  absurd 
as  the  other. 

On  reaching  Mt.  Madurah,  Moses  was  instructed  to  take 
Aaron  and  Eleazar  to  the  top  of  the  mountain  and  transfer  the 
high  priestly  robes  from  Aaron  to  his  son.  This  was  done  in 
the  sight  of  all  Israel.  Aaron  then  died  on  that  20th  day  of  July 
b.c.  1438  and  was  buried  on  the  top  of  the  mountain.  The 
people  mourned  him  for  30  days  and  then  pushed  onward  toward 
Hormah,  where  they  defeated  the  Canaanites,  who  came  from 
Arad,  and  destroyed  their  cities.  Then  “they  journeyed  south¬ 
ward  from  Mt.  Madurah  by  the  Way  of  the  Red  Sea  to  compass 
land  of  Edom.”  This  brought  them  a  second  time  to  Ezion- 
gaber,  where  “they  turned”  and  travelled  northward  “by  the 
way  of  the  wilderness  of  Moab.”  On  the  road,  they  once  more 
rebelled  and  fiery  serpents  were  sent  among  them  from  the  effect 
of  whose  poison  there  was  no  escape  except  by  an  act  of  faith. 
In  obedience  to  God’s  command  Moses  made  a  brass  casting 
in  imitation  of  a  serpent  and  mounted  it  on  a  pole  so  that  all 
could  see  it.  We  learn  (n  Kings  18,  4.)  that  the  people  religi¬ 
ously  preserved  said  casting  for  more  than  700  years,  but  that 
it  was  finally  broken  up  by  king  Hezekiah. 


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ON  THE  ROAD  TO  CANAAN 


Their  course  now  lay  along  the  Damascus  road,  first  running 
east  of  the  country  of  Moab  and  then  west  of  the  country  of 
Ammon  until  at  last  they  reached  the  brooks  of  Arnon,  which 
they  crossed  and  followed  until  they  came  to  Jahaz. 

The  next  few  months  were  remarkable  for  successful  encoun¬ 
ters  both  in  Gilead  and  Bashan  with  the  Amorites  which  led 
them  as  far  as  Mt.  Hermon  the  extreme  northern  limit  of  their 
possessions,  a  point  that  the  spies  had  visited  some  38  years 
before.  They  then  fought  their  way  southward  along  the  sea 
of  Galilee  through  Mahanaim  to  the  Plains  of  Moab,  near  the 
Dead  Sea  and  opposite  to  Jericho.  It  was  now  the  Winter  of 
b.c.  1438-7,  and  enervated  by  the  tropical  climate  which  char¬ 
acterizes  the  region  of  the  Dead  Sea  many  succumbed  to  the 
wiles  of  the  Midianites  and  were  carried  off  in  the  plague. 
War  followed  in  which  the  Midianites  were  defeated  and  Balaam 
the  secret  enemy  of  Israel  was  slain.  Thus  ended  the  conquest 
of  all  their  territory  east  of  the  river  Jordan. 

Moses  delivered  his  valedictory  address  on  the  12th  day  of 
January  b.c.  1437,  finished  writing  the  Book  of  the  Law  and 
died  in  the  month  of  February. 

Israel  mourned  for  him  during  the  next  30  days. 

Joshua  then  took  supreme  command  and  led  the  children 
of  Israel  across  the  Jordan  on  the  21st  day  of  March  b.c.  1437. 
They  at  once  took  possession  of  Gilgal  where  they  celebrated 
the  Passover  on  the  26th  of  March.  Thus  in  40  years  from  the 
time  they  left  Raineses  they  entered  Canaan  from  its  eastern 
border  and  took  such  rapid  possession  that  in  6  years’  time 
they  were  able  to  divide  the  land  among  their  twelve  tribes. 


As  regards  the  dates  given  in  the  Itinerary  we  refer  to 
Auchincloss’  Bible  Chronology  also  to  Sossnitz’s  Idan  Olamim 
which  is  based  on  the  calendar  of  Rabbi  Hillel  ii.  We  have 
named  July  as  the  month  when  Israel  arrived  in  the  Wilderness  of 
Paran  near  Kadesh,  because  on  the  semi-tropical  plain  of  Sharon 


ON  THE  ROAD  TO  CANAAN 


11 


it  was  undoubtedly  “the  time  of  the  first  ripe  grapes/’  the  time 
when  Eshcol  bore  those  magnificent  clusters  that  -excited  the 
admiration  of  the  men  sent  to  spy  out  the  land. 

.Some  of  the  Bible  records  are  so  exact  that  we  have  been  able 
not  only  to  fix  upon  the  month,  but  also  to  give  the  day  of  the 
month.  This  would  not  have  been  possible  if  Jewish  chronology 
had  rested  on  any  one  of  the  Eras  of  the  ancient  world,  All 
their  feasts  however  rested  on  an  astronomical  basis  and  found 
their  recurrence  in  the  phases  of  the  Moon.  Consequently 
Jewish  dates  can  be  given  with  great  precision. 

As  we  recall  all  the  stages  of  Israels  wonderful  journey  from 
Egypt  to  Canaan,  the  many  miracles  performed  by  God’s  com¬ 
mand,  the  many  books  in  which  their  progress  was  recorded, 
the  centuries  during  which  those  records  were  preserved  and 
the  geographical  consistency  of  the  entire  narrative,  we  feel 
that  were  there  no  other  proof  of  the  Inspired  character  of  the 
Pentateuch,  such  a  geographical  record  would  in  itself  constitute 
a  full  and  complete  vindication  of  the  Books  of  Moses. 


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ISRAEL’S  ITINERARY 


NAMES  OF  PLACES 


DATES  OF  ARRIVAL 


MILES 


Left  Rameses 
Arrival  at  Succoth 
Etham,  or  Shur 
Pi-hahiroth 
Crossed  the  Red  Sea 
Wilderness  of  Shur 
Marah 
Elim 

“By  the  Red  Sea” 
Wilderness  of  Sin 
Dophkak  .  .  .  camped 
Alush 
Rephidim 
Desert  of  Sinai 
Arrived  at  Mt.  Sinai 
Left  “  “ 

J  Taberah  . . .  camped 
1  Ivibroth-hattaavah 
Hazeroth 

Wilderness  of  Paran 

Rithmah  . . .  camped 

Rinnnon-parez 

Libnah 

Rissah 

Kehelathah 

Alt.  Shapher 

Haradah 

Makhaloth 

Jahath  . . .  camped 

Tarah 

Mithcah 

Hashmonah 

Moseroth  . . .  camped 


b.c.  1477,  April  19th 
“  April 


U 


probably  May 


U 

U 

(( 

u 


u 

u 

u 


May  19th 

May 


June  3rd 
b.c.  1476,  May  12th 
“  “  15th 

month  of  June 
probably  June 


U 

U 

u 

u 

u 

u 


u 

(( 

u 

u 


probably  July 


U 

a 


30 

42 

47 

28 


82 


(13 


Total,  229 


14 


Israel’s  itinerary 


RERERENCES 

NAMES  OF  PLACES 

DATES  OF  ARRIVAL 

MILES 

Num. 

33,  31 

Bene-jaakan 

b.c.  1476,  probably  July 

229 

(( 

“  32 

Hor-hagidgad 

U  6i 

u 

“  33 

Jotbathah 

U  U 

u 

“  34 

Ebronah  camped 

U  (C 

u 

“  35 

Ezion-gaber 

U  (( 

116 

Judges 

11,  16 

The  Red  Sea  to  Kadesh 

u  u 

97 

Num. 

13,  20 

Wilderness  of  Paran,  or 

b.c. 1476,  month  of  July 

86 

<C 

U 

“  21 
20,  1 

Zin 

“  People  abode  in 

1475  March  12th 

u 

Deu. 

“  2, 

“  22 
1,  46 
1,14 

Kadesh” 

Left  Kadesh  after  38  yrs. 

b.c.  1438,  month  of  July 

U 

10,  6 

Beeroth 

U  U 

Num. 

33,  37 

Mosera,  facing  Mt.  Hor 

“  July  20th 

Deu. 

10,  7 

Gudgodah 

“  August  20th 

U 

“  7 

Jot  bath 

“  probably  Aug. 

Judges 

1,17 

Hormah  or  Zephath 

((  U 

40 

Num. 

Deu. 

21,  3 
2,  8 

Plain,  or  Way  of  the 

“  probably  Sept. 

102 

cc 

“  8 

Arabah 

Wilderness  of  Moab 

U  U 

Num. 

33,  41 

Zalmonah 

u  u 

56 

U 

“  42 

Punon 

u  u 

u 

21,  10 

Oboth 

u  u 

u 

“  11 

Ije-abarim 

u  u 

Deu. 

1,  1 

Tophel 

u  u 

Num. 

21,  12 

Valley  of  Zared 

U  (( 

Deu. 

2,  26 

Wilderness  of  Kedemoth 

a  u 

87 

Num. 

21,  14 

Brooks  of  Arnon 

u  u 

U 

“  16 

Beer 

u  u 

U 

“  18 

Mattanah 

U  ii 

u 

“  19 

Nahaliel 

u  u 

u 

“  19 

Bamoth 

((  u 

Deu. 

2,  32 

Jahaz 

u  u 

U 

4,  43 

Bezer — city  of  refuge 

</  (( 

Joshua 

13,  9 

Areor 

<(  t( 

27 

Total, 

840 

1 


Israel’s  itinerary  15 


REFERENCES 

NAMES  OF  PLACES 

DATES  OF  ARRIVAL 

MILES 

Joshua 

13,  17 

Dibon 

b.c.  1438,  probably  Sept. 

840 

Num. 

32,  3 

Ataroth 

CC  CC 

CC 

33,  46 

Almon-diblathaim 

CC  CC 

Josh. 

13,  9 

Medeba 

cc  cc 

cc 

“  17 

Baal-meon 

CC  CC 

Num. 

33,  47 

Mts.  of  Abarim,  Nebo 

cc  u 

CC 

21,25 

Heshbon 

“  probably  Oct. 

25 

CC 

32,  37 

Elealah 

(C  u 

cc 

21,  32 

Jaazer 

CC  (( 

cc 

32,  35 

Jogbehah 

U  CC 

cc 

21,  33 

Edrei 

CC  CC 

68 

Josh. 

13,  31 

Ashtaroth 

CC  CC 

Deu. 

4,  43 

Golan — city  of  refuge 

CC  CC 

CC 

3,  4 

60  cities  of  Bashan 

CC  CC 

"  3, 

8,  9 

CC  CC 

CC  CC 

cc 

4,  48 

Mt.  Hermon 

CC  CC 

Num. 

32,  42 

Kenath 

CC  CC 

Deu. 

3,  10 

Salchah 

CC  CC 

102 

Josh. 

13,  26 

Mahanaim 

“  probably  Nov. 

56 

Deu. 

3,  16 

River  Jabbok 

CC  CC 

24 

Josh. 

13,  27 

Succoth  and  Zaphon 

CC  CC 

Deu. 

4,  43 

Ramoth-gilead — city  of 

CC  CC 

11 

1  Kin. 

22,  3 

refuge 

CC  c 

Josh. 

13,  26 

Betonim 

CC  CC 

Num. 

32,  36 

Beth-nimrah 

CC  CC 

Josh. 

13,  27 

Beth-aram 

CC  CC 

Num. 

33,  49 

Beth-jeshimoth 

CC  CC 

CC 

“  50 

Plains  of  Moab 

CC  CC 

cc 

25,  1 

Shittim 

“  Winter 

Deu. 

4,  46 

Beth-peor 

CC  CC 

Josh. 

3,  14 

Crossed  the  Jordan 

b.c.  1437,  March  21st 

24 

CC 

4,  19 

Gilgal  taken 

CC  CC 

Total,  1150 


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